Saw them at the old Club Bene around 1987. Jay could still sing then and it was a pretty good show.
OT: worst concert you attended
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Saw them at the old Club Bene around 1987. Jay could still sing then and it was a pretty good show.
Jay and the Americans is an iconic act? I actually looked up the meaning of iconic after reading that.
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Hahahaha I walked out with my family at intermission. That was unbelievably stupid.
I know you will enjoy this one. My worst concert "will be" on April 8.....wife wants to go see Bon Jovi. HA!
Hey, since you are in the Sayreville know, there was a rumor way back that JBJ's high school band not only lost a school battle of the bands but was also booed off stage. True?
To be honest, I really never paid attention to him before Atlantic City Expressway got spun up in about '78. Several of my closest friends were in Expressway and Jon was dating a very good friend of mine at the time. I would, on occasion, pitch in on the sound board. I can tell you that band never got booed off a stage, they were pretty tight.
Got it, so that was just a BS rumor. I think I heard it from some of my SV cousins, that they were normally full of crap! :)
There were actually two bands that came out of A.C.E. - the other being, after a fashion, Skid Row (Dave Sabo and Charlie Mills).
Easy now, I happen to know plenty of good people who were in HS bands that were booed offstage...(present company included)
Speaking of Skid Row, where did Bach come from? He was local as well, right? Also, when did JBJ form his future JBJ band, early 80's?
Curious Original?
Does your being repulsed by moles go beyond sexual attraction?
Can you have a basic friendly relationship and business interactions with people who have moles?
Are you comfortable with a restaurant server with moles bringing you your food, or sitting next to someone on a plane with moles?
Does your being repulsed by moles go beyond sexual attraction?
Can you have a basic friendly relationship and business interactions with people who have moles?
Are you comfortable with a restaurant server with moles bringing you your food, or sitting next to someone on a plane with moles?
Bach is a Hoser. Legend has it that JBJ's parents saw him singing at some wedding and put him in touch with Dave Sabo.
The JBJ band was formed in '83, after the release of Runaway, which was originally recorded without any of the members of what would become Bon Jovi. Roy Bittan, from the E Street Band, actually played keyboards on that recording.
Hell yeah. Even after it became Bello's - although I haven't been there for a few years.
The real "secret hiding spot" for old school Sayreville folks is Buddies.
Good stuff! My grandmother was friends with JBJ's parents for quite a while, I think via the local church or some church based group. SV has grown a bunch over the years, but back then, it seemed like a smaller, well-connected community.
Sayreville was always a little strange, in that it could very much feel a lot smaller than it was. Even in the 70s there were close to 30,000 people in the town, but it somehow seemed like everyone knew everyone else.
That’s why I brought up Simko’s which is where I would end up sometimes right after college...
Had a friend from RU that grew up in a very tony Bergen County town who thru divorce before school ended up living with family in the Old Bridge/Sayreville area for a bit. This is a real personable guy who easily makes friends wherever he goes which is what he did when he got there. Thru him I met some of these people and like you said, small town feel with everybody seeming to know everybody else. Real quality folks with a true salt of earth way about them. Everyone I met via my friend was like that.
Bon Jovi opened for the Scorpions on their 1984 tour. I only knew the song runaway, and had never heard any other Bon Jovi songs. I guess the only other song off their debut album that was a hit was She Don't Know Me.
When they opened the show, we were standing in the front row, and I remarked to my friend--who is this David Lee Roth wanna be? The show was pretty good, but we were their for the Scorpions, who were insanely good and loud. My ears rang for 2 weeks after that show.
Were you a regular at Club Bene? Did you see Howard Stern there? Going to the R&R Hall of Fame induction?
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I wouldn't say "regular". I went to Bene a number of times, but not on any regular basis. I was more likely to go to the old Fountain Casino, or the Royal Manor North.
I've never seen Howard Stern in my life. Can't stand the guy's schtick.
And no... No induction ceremony for me. I was actually very disgusted to hear that Stern was inducting Bon Jovi.
I don't know the whole story, and Stern likes to take credit for everything, but it seems he was an early supporter. Some of the early tapes of Bon Jovi's appearances are funny.
He was much better on NBC and then Krock. The Sirius/XM years have been terrible. Now the show is on par with The View.
No idea. But Stern came to NYC in '82 and worked at a station that wouldn't ever have played a new Bon Jovi tune. When he moved from NBC to K-Rock in '85, his biggest feud with management was his refusal to play music at all. So I don't really know what he's getting at.
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A friend invited me to help out with security at The Barn in the mid-70s. Jay Black & The Americans were the opening act and the late comedian David Brenner was the main act. My friend told me the year before, he showed actor/comedian Robert Klein to his "dressing room" in the Gym. Klein then proceeded to banter and do improvisational comedy with all the Rutgers guys in the room long before he ever appeared on stage.
So my friend was a little disappointed when Brenner's limo pulled into the parking lot behind the Barn and all I could see was a gloved hand reach for the window. My friend and I escorted Brenner, manager, entourage, etc. into the building and to his room. Then we were escorted right out of the room. My friend was pissed. I didn't care.
But then we escorted Jay Black and his Americans (not the original backing band) downstairs. They invited us to stay. Invited us to eat whatever food was set up for them. Jay Black & the Americans were at their height throughout the 1960s. They were on the backside of their popularity by the 1970s yet the Rutgers students loved them. I know, I was one of them. Jay Black said they were readying an act for Las Vegas.
Afterwards he told us they didn't do an encore even though the crowd wanted them to. Jay Black said they knew most of the students came to hear David Brenner's act and didn't want to overstay their welcome. But he was wrong.
Nice. Similar story here. Slightly longer, though. Our son loved Backstreet Boys, N-Sync, Smashmouth and pop like that when he was 7-10 years old. We never criticized his choices, but we also exposed him to the good stuff from the 50s through what was new in the early 2000s, hoping he'd eventually come around. He did, becoming a big fan if indie/alt/punk by the time he was 12-13 (and also great classic rock, Motown, etc.). Started taking him to festivals back then, which we all loved and where you get to see a nice variety of bands.
Fast forward to the summer of 2010, when he's 15 and was starting to discover a whole world of music on the internet, including bands I didn't know or know well. He introduced me to the band Wavves and then said he noticed they were touring. The only all ages show I could find in the area was at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, but it was sold out. So I said let's go anyway and I assured him we could scalp the $10 tickets.
However, they were breaking huge in the indie world at that time and when we got there, nobody was selling. That's when I figured I had to try an old trick - bribery. Went up to the door guy and offered him $50 to get the two of us in. That worked. My son thought I was the coolest dad in the world at that point, which, of course, I was, lol. Anyway, so we get in and then the really cool stuff happened.
First, the opening band turned out to be Cloud Nothings on their first tour with their first EP and they floored us - they've gone on to be even bigger than Wavves. Then before the 2nd band, Dom (one of my son's new faves at the time), went on, that door guy came up to us and asked if we wanted to meet Wavves. Uhhhh, yeah. Brought us back to a cubbyhole of a room and the band were Cali surf dudes who were really cool: they were amazed that my son knew their song titles and they all signed his iPod. Made his day at least.
Then the most fun part for me as a dad. Wavves went on and put on a great show, with the best part being getting to see my son in his first real mosh pit. He kind of just stood on the edge of several at those festival shows, but didn't dive in, but for this show, maybe because it was a tiny venue filled with hard core fans going nuts, he joined in - as did I - it was pretty damn cool being in the same mosh pit as my son. Kind of passing the torch so to speak. My son still talks glowingly of that show (we've seen at least 100 bands together - not as many now that he's 23), especially as all 3 bands became pretty big, at least in the alt/indie world.
I think this word does not mean what you think it means. :)
Well you could stay here and claim you were talking about the Aussie group “Mole” or the English group “Matching Mole”
Eva Mendes is thought to be attractive, but as anyone can see she is, in fact, horribly disfigured.
Just the girl next door is what I'm thinking.Eva Mendes is thought to be attractive, but as anyone can see she is, in fact, horribly disfigured.
where do you live?Just the girl next door is what I'm thinking.
I got invited to an Electronica concert. I figured it was gonna be EDM. Turns out it was an old guy with a Mac Book Pro sitting at a desk on the stage playing recorded street and crowd sounds. Weirdest event I have ever attended. It was so awkward staring at the guy on the stage when he played the recorded sounds. Concert lasted about 90 minutes. My wife and I burst out laughing when leaving the concert hall.
I may write like a lot of things, but you're the first person who's ever said I write like an engineer. Many engineers I work with have trouble putting together coherent sentences - certainly not my issue - maybe too many of them sometimes, though...
True for many engineers, but I was more thinking about unnecessary details. 6 of my team members having engineering backgrounds and all write like you (and so does my dad, fellow ChemE!). Just a friendly observation.
I think I was like that for a while, but my history BA and all those writing classes helped me break that habit! But I struggle at times with it verbally (too many details.....as per my wife :) ).
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